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I agree. What do you think of Hobbes? I'd call him one of the good guys. In Hobbes the subject/object game is downplayed, and he focuses on the practi...

Indeed. Of course here I am targeting phantasms, a ghostbusting ghost. I justify that by insisting that the earlier critics of phantasms got it pretty...

I agree, but I'd also stress that new phantasms are created in the science of phantasms, and this is what I mean by metaphysicks^2 and metaphysicks^3....

The 'real conversation' theme is great, as is insisting on the gap between academic concerns and philosophy that matters to us as worldly mortals. We ...

Just looked him up. Sounds fascinating. But what one often sees is Wittgenstein himself becoming part of the disease. The disease is a hungry Hegelian...

I agree. And, speaking of Nietzsche, he's largely valuable as one more eloquent attitude to have spent some time with. In my mind, being educated is c...

Same here. I love philosophy. I consider it a central expression of what some would call my spirituality. My distaste for phantasms is connected to a ...

I was excited to see your post. I had to pipe up and support it.

I agree, at least when it comes to much of philosophy. To keep metaphysicks going, such critiques must be (falsely) assimilated by those too attached ...